| “The better to hunt you with, my dears.” So much easier to get to when they’re out of the pocket, I understand — assuming it’s true, of course. |
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the
Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
leadership was running away from Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
's capital following the Israeli strike that killed the terror group's prime minister and other brass hats.
''The remaining Houthi leadership is escaping Sanaa,'' Katz posted on X on Tuesday night. ''Like all leaders of holy warrior Islamist terror, they look after themselves and abandon the residents,'' he said, writing that Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...'s Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
-based leadership does the same.
''We knew how to hunt them this time, and we will know how to do so in the future as well,'' he added.
| See? And unlike Hamas, they won’t have hostages to hide behind. |
Several senior Houthi leaders have fled Sanaa to more rural areas in the north of Yemen, the report said, adding that their families have been transported to secure locations.
Houthi leaders also told all senior members not to use government buildings or gather in public places, fearing targeting by Israeli aircraft.
The August 28 strike killed Houthi Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi, along with several other ministers and top Houthi officials, while they attended a meeting in Sanaa, which is run by the terror group.
A Tuesday report said the precision
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KABOOM!...
followed weeks of intelligence gathering and operational preparation, and involved some 200 intelligence personnel working in a secret bunker.
According to Israeli security sources cited by the Kan public broadcaster, the operation targeted a secretive security meeting involving top Houthi government and military leaders, identified by the IDF Intelligence Directorate's Research Division.
Kan reported that around 200 intelligence personnel — including members of IDF units 8200, 9900, and 504 — gathered in a classified bunker in central Israel to collect detailed intelligence on the Iran-backed terror group. Representatives from the US Central Command were also reportedly involved.
Ahead of the strike, Israeli intelligence determined the exact timing and location of the meeting. Several potential sites were considered, and once a villa in a residential neighborhood of Sanaa was confirmed, plans were quickly approved by IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir and cleared at the political level, the report added.
According to Kan, the presence of senior Israeli military and political officials overseeing the operation ensured that it complied with international law.
Current estimates reportedly place more than 20 senior Houthi officials as having been inside the targeted villa, alongside aides, drivers, and security personnel. According to the Journal, the strike was part of an approach Israeli soldiers refer to as “FAFO,” an acronym that stands for “fuck around and find out.”
Israeli authorities note that the Houthis deliberately held the meeting in a residential villa rather than an official government building, suggesting an attempt to conceal their movements. The Journal report said that the terror group’s leaders have been taking precautions for months, including switching off their phones, communicating in person, avoiding social media and switching locations on a frequent basis.
Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi, who has remained in hiding for years, was not among the senior officials killed. In a televised speech on the Houthis’ Al-Masirah TV on Sunday following Israel’s attack, he vowed to continue “targeting Israel with missiles and drones” and to escalate these attacks, asserting that recent Israeli strikes on rebel-held areas of Yemen would not weaken the group or discourage its fighters.
Kan reported that al-Houthi remains a key IDF target for elimination due to his symbolic and operational significance, and that further operations are planned to deter ongoing missile and drone attacks from Yemen toward Israel.